1921.] The Eighth Indian Science Congress. Ixxix 
means and facilities necessary for the proper pursuit of his work. 
If scientific research is to yield the maximum benefit to industry, 
research students must live in close touch with industrial con- 
itions. The gap between the laboratory and the shop must be 
bridged. 
Apart from the practical help and encouragement given by 
Government I think it is part of the duty of all commercial and 
industrial concerns which benefit, directly or indirectly, from 
scientific research, to set aside a portion of their enhanced profits 
for the purpose of contributing to scientific associations like this 
to enable its members to extend their work and devote more 
time to further discoveries. 
is Congress has charged itself with the function of 
bringing together from year to year in a convenient form the 
results of the researches and discoveries of those who are 
engaged in the different branches of science. These have been 
collected and reproduced in the annual proceedings of the Cong: 
ress. It isnot only most important but essential for the benefit 
of the whole of India that these discoveries, made by different 
scientists in different fields of work, should be brought to the 
notice of every one likely to be interested. Sufficient funds 
should, therefore, be in the hands of your Committee to enable 
it to make its work known to the public, so that any one who 
takes an interest in a particular subject may readily obtain infor- 
mation. The objects of the Congress should be the advertise- 
ment of its activities to the non-scientist ; the exchange cf infor- 
mation between scientists, and the encouragement of them in 
their several activities. Make clear to the industrialist and to 
Government the practical benefit you are conferring on them 
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methods; it will be good for their minds, an will educate 
public opinion in a direction helpful to the cause you all 
have at heart. 
It has been aptly said that science has its hand on the 
lever controlling the major physical facts of our existence. 
The war has shown us the way, and we now see before us a 
new prospect of unlimited possibilities of developments. The 
importance of the skilled chemist has been abundantly shown 
most of the comforts of modern civilisation, but it is a strange 
fact that great honour or profit are seldom the rewards of a 
